Getting better...now what?

Adrienne is definitely feeling better. She's only taking 1-2 pills each day for breakthrough pain and once that's over, we'll think about tapering the rest. She saw the doctor today and her counts are still really low but she's feeling okay. Tomorrow she'll get an aranesp shot rather than a transfusion (her choice). We're trying to figure out what to do next, either go to New York and start a new trial or do another chemo here. The doc is really worried about her marrow so we discussed the possibility of doxil at a reduced dose. I sent an email to the cardiologist in Miami to make sure it's okay before we make any decisions. Add to that, City of Hope received the SGN-35 protocol and we understand that it's a therapeutic dose so that's good news. Her doc there thinks it'll be about 6 weeks until the trial opens; we'll figure 8 weeks just to be safe. She may need another biopsy so we need to check on that because it would probably mean an open lung biopsy, not exactly a fun proposition.

In the meantime, we're trying to enjoy some of the summer. We may head to Santa Barbara next week to see Daniel, who has a nasty eye infection. I hope he went to the urgent care clinic tonight as I asked him to. He's planning to come here for his 21st birthday later in August. I'm not sure how much fun I'll think that is but I'm sure he'll have a great time with his buddies.